J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Fishing Boat in Surf, Seen from Behind 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Fishing Boat in Surf, Seen from Behind’ 1796-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Fishing Boat in Surf, Seen from Behind 1796–7
D00882
Turner Bequest XXXIII K
Pencil, watercolour and gouache on coarse buff laid paper, 199 x 265 mm
Inscribed on stern of boat ‘BRITON’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom left
Stamped in black ‘XXXIII – K’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s inscription, broken as it is by the tiller of the boat, has been thought to read ‘BRIGHTON’, and the whole group of drawings accordingly assigned to the Brighton area. In fact, there are greater similarities with studies of Margate in the contemporary Wilson sketchbook (Tate D01231, D01233, D01234; Turner Bequest XXXVII 114, 116, 117).1
1
A.Wilton, J.M.W.Turner: The Wilson Sketchbook, Tate Gallery, London 1988, p.19
Technical notes:
There are some blue colour stains along the top right and right edges of the sheet.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
January 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Fishing Boat in Surf, Seen from Behind 1796–7 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-fishing-boat-in-surf-seen-from-behind-r1149799, accessed 20 May 2024.